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Oh man, I had a busy busy weekend. My cousin got married this weekend! Congrats, Korie and Adam!

I’d also like to name drop something, if I may. My aunt is working on a start-up business designing and selling non-piercing belly jewelry. She has items designed for all sizes of bellies, including pregnancy stages. Her website is Belly Bling Boutique. Give it a look-see!

And lastly, I wanna share a concept sketch for the centaur forms that I almost went with:

I decided to go for a more real-life horse for the bottom half because I wanted the centaur forms to look graceful. But yep, almost had a My Little Centaur in the dream sequence,. 😀

Despite the incriminating evidence against me, I actually don’t watch MLP. I’ve heard a lot of the “It’s soooo good!” referrals and will probably check it out in detail at some point, but I’ve actually only seen one episode. Looks cute and funny and silly so I bet I’d probably like it, but mostly I just know enough to recognize the multitude of Pop Culture shout outs and memes.

Of course, if you were brave/smart/whatever enough to forget your pretenses and actually give the damn thing a try, you’d see how wrong you were pretty much immediately.

But, since you apparently haven’t heard ANYTHING about it since you have “no reason to think it’s better,” here are a few things:

Lauren Faust is the director. Also was in charge of Powerpuff Girls and Foster’s. Others on the team worked on Dexter’s Lab and other cartoons from that era.

Tara Strong is one of the voice actors. She also did Bubbles from PPG, Timmy from Fairly Odd Parents, Princess Clara from Drawn Together, and more.

The animation is great; you can see that at a moment’s glance.

The plotlines are actually good, and there are a whole bunch of shoutouts and homages to things that only adults would appreciate (Canterlot is intentionally designed after Minas Tirith, and the Benny Hill theme plays now and then for chase scenes).
Plus, the characters are all likeable and much more intricate than the standard 1-dimensional “fashion designer” or “ditz” character in a lot of TV shows.

So, all that being said, go ahead and give it a try if you’re man enough. I recommend starting at “Sonic Rainboom” or “Bridle Gossip” for your first episode, or just watching them straight through. Be warned though, the first 2 episodes are kind of meh compared to the rest, so if you DO watch them straight through, wait until the third one to judge the series.

Okay, okay, like the show, but seriously, some one is way to into the show, *cough*McBeher*cough*.
I mean, it’s still MLP, MY LITTLE PONY man. MY FREAKIN’ LIL PONY, how embarrassing is liking that show? Very. Extremely so.

^Okay, okay, the new MLP is really an animal unto itself and totally incomparable with anything MLP has been part of before. It is done by Lauren Faust—the amazing animator who coworked on Powerpuff Girls and the head animator/producer for Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends.

The animation is really solid (Powerpuff Girl style but I think more consistent), and there is some subtle adult humor in it which makes it really fun to watch. Way better than the ponies of the 80s – early 2000s. Those were basically ads for toys. Friendship Is Magic is really more like it’s own cartoon. The first few episodes I saw were so enjoyable, I was worried it’d be canceled, but it seems like little kids love it as much as their parents. Now I just hope it sustains in awesomeness, but if Ms. Faust stays involved it probably will. 🙂

MLP is “My Little Pony”, specifically “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic”. Basically, they made a show that happened to be aimed at little girls that WASN’T “girly”, and did it so well that a largish number of adult males (and adult females) also like it.